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CRUELTY
For the first Murther that we findeWas ere Committed by Mankind
By zealous Rage, and Fury, about
Religious worship first fell out;
When fierce Cain having kild his Brother
One fourth of Mankind slew the other.
And ever since an æqual Rate
Of all the world has had that Fate.
For when a Gap was made for Sin
Mad Zeal, and murther first broke in.
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